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  • noun Plural form of pennywhistle.

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Examples

  • Scatting his signature "senior" spontaneous bop, he sounds good, a hip guy in a suit with pipes and pennywhistles hanging off his neck making it up as it suits him.

    Regina Weinreich: David Amram at 80 Regina Weinreich 2010

  • Scatting his signature "senior" spontaneous bop, he sounds good, a hip guy in a suit with pipes and pennywhistles hanging off his neck making it up as it suits him.

    Regina Weinreich: David Amram at 80 Regina Weinreich 2010

  • Scatting his signature "senior" spontaneous bop, he sounds good, a hip guy in a suit with pipes and pennywhistles hanging off his neck making it up as it suits him.

    Regina Weinreich: David Amram at 80 Regina Weinreich 2010

  • For someone with a bag of musical tricks that includes industrial flute, miniature hand bells, triple extended pennywhistles, music boxes, the Obnoxiophone, bicycle bells, novelty toys, etc. etc., what would be his favorite instrument of all?

    Holly Cara Price: Sxip Shirey's Magic Journey: Sonic New York 2010

  • I mean, when someone can make wonderful music out of taped together music boxes, harmonicas, a marble in a glass bowl, bicycle bells, pennywhistles, and hand bells, how can that not be magic?

    Archive 2010-05-01 Megan Kurashige 2010

  • Scatting his signature "senior" spontaneous bop, he sounds good, a hip guy in a suit with pipes and pennywhistles hanging off his neck making it up as it suits him.

    Regina Weinreich: David Amram at 80 Regina Weinreich 2010

  • I mean, when someone can make wonderful music out of taped together music boxes, harmonicas, a marble in a glass bowl, bicycle bells, pennywhistles, and hand bells, how can that not be magic?

    it's not original, but sometimes it's true Megan Kurashige 2010

  • Julie — young, slender and very appealing — is a master of Irish whistles oh, the bright little sound of one of those little pennywhistles and also — other end of the audible scale — master of the ear-punishing bagpipes.

    Buzzine » Julie Fowlis 2009

  • The only false touch in the film, for me, was the weak attempt at humor with the pennywhistles on the soundtrack in the bar scene.

    Edmond O'Brien Ed Gorman 2008

  • Every child also got one of the finest crackers obtainable, with little prizes inside like pennywhistles, so that they all went home with at least a bag of nuts from the button hunt and a cracker prize in their pockets, along with the memory of a day stuffed full of fun without the shadow of war on it.

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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